Urban spam
Filed in archive Spam News by Ivy on February 03, 2007
As our inboxes fill with unsolicited mail day after day, we tend to forget that bombarding with commercials started long before Internet. Giant billboards next to the highway, messages on our sugar packs and logos painted on busses, nothing is sacred
anymore. And it only gets worse.
A few days ago I went to the movies after a long time and was astound with the amount of commercials the theater served us: there was an introductory 15 minute start commercial block, and in the middle of the movie we had a 20 minute pause for some more unsolicited marketing.
Some people, more artistic than me, think the same as me. Piers Fawkes made a movie about urban spam:
anymore. And it only gets worse.A few days ago I went to the movies after a long time and was astound with the amount of commercials the theater served us: there was an introductory 15 minute start commercial block, and in the middle of the movie we had a 20 minute pause for some more unsolicited marketing.
Some people, more artistic than me, think the same as me. Piers Fawkes made a movie about urban spam:
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